Deuteronomy 14:2
For thou are a holy people to LORD thy God, and LORD has chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3Thou shall not eat any abominable thing.
Cross References
Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be my own possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine,
Leviticus 19:2Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I LORD your God am holy.
Leviticus 20:26And ye shall be holy to me, for I, LORD, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.
Deuteronomy 7:7LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples,
Deuteronomy 26:18And LORD has avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised thee, and that thou should keep all his commandments,
Isaiah 6:13And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up. As a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled, so the holy seed is the stock of it.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 14:2-22
What Might Be Eaten, and What Not. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead. 2 For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. 3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. 4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat, 5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and… Read the whole commentary →